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Manufacture of electrical equipment

Current registrations 78division 27: 1,060
Starters, 12 months 22.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 112.8 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 56614 employers · latest accounts
Median age 19.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 85.9%67 of 78 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 27510 · financial year 2025 · 50 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
37.7%
division 42.9% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€20,012
division €17,226 · Belgium €16,516
Median equity
€137,145
division €238,659 · Belgium €98,395
Loss-making
20.0%
division 30.7% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
12.0%
division 11.6% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
15.5%
division 10.0% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.56
division 1.73 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
35.3%
financial year 2024, 51 filings · division 37.0% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.6%
of 55 companies with annual accounts · division 6.4% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 42.4%44.1%39.8%44.4%45.8%37.7%
Median net result €16,307€27,442€14,708€16,009€9,665€20,012

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
3
3.85% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
4
51.3 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
16-09-2026 Vandevelde, Jean
BE 0641.581.259 · sole trader · Sint-Truiden
14-07-2025 Bini Solution
BE 0838.694.959
14-04-2025 EuroQueen
BE 0432.777.574

Every bankruptcy in division 27, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 65 of 78 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 44 · 67.7%
  • Wallonia 16 · 24.6%
  • Brussels 3 · 4.6%
  • Abroad 2 · 3.1%
fewer moremax 12

Largest employers

NACE 27510 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 NOVYKuurne 185 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Ariston BeneluxNamur 129 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 THE POWER SHOPRotselaar 68.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 V-ZUG EUROPEHarelbeke 47.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 BABYLISS FACOLiège 44.1 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 26 companies
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 11
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 9
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 8
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 6
  • 149.04 Metal trade 3
  • 124 Construction 2
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 201 Independent retail 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 27: Electrical equipment

Related activities

1 other activity
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of electrical equipment27520 15 0 0 -

Bankruptcies per year in division 27

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies56971176489128
Jobs lost13736313765261655183200160

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 27

194 employers
Median
€70,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€58,000 to €89,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
23 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €66,800 €52,200 to €86,600 86
10 to 49 FTE €70,700 €59,600 to €84,400 76
50 to 249 FTE €83,100 €72,600 to €93,200 21

Foreign control in NACE division 27

729 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €23.7m awarded 184 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Federal transfers 3.2m amount as published 5 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor de verbetering van telecommunicatieconnectiviteit
  • EU budget €32.1m attributed share 11 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €51.9m EU contribution 21 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Manufacture of electrical equipment

Balance sheet and result. 20.0% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium. The median net result of €20,012 is above Belgium's €16,516. Solvency of 37.7% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.4% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 19.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 16.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 7.4% of the registrations of Electrical equipment.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 473 of the 566 FTE: 83.5%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 42.4% in financial year 2020 to 37.7% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €16,307 in financial year 2020 to €20,012 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 27510 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.